Archive for November, 2007

This episode wasn’t very enjoyable as the editing was poor and the whole thing was kind of rushed. Anyway, the recaps.

The teams started their race with sisters Pam & Van leading the pack. They had to go to a bus station to catch a bus which leaves every 15 minutes to Pila.

The girls saw Marc‘s face featured on a map while taking a taxi to the bus station. XD

It was bad luck for the sisters as Marc & Rovilson came up the bus after a while, and both teams left together while flirting (? 🙂 ) with each other.

Indonesians Brett & Kinar and dancing moms Ann & Diane boarded the next bus, they too persuaded the bus driver to head out earlier than schedule.

The third bus carried Sophie & Aurelia; Paula & Natasha and Collin & Adrian on the fourth bus. Paula & Natasha spent time on the bus by begging around for money, and was awarded with quite a lot of cash.

Daichi & Sawaka got on the fifth bus.

At Pila, teams must perform a road block, which requires them to guide a carabao around markers in a paddy (and muddy) field.

Pam and Marc plunged into the field immediately, but Pam got impatient by her bull and started to lose control. Marc did well with his, and finished quickly.

A frustrated Pam was guided by the farmers back to the starting point, and she had to restart.

Back in Manila, Henry & Terri and Edwin & Monica just began their races, and boarded the sixth bus to Pila. Terri lifted the mood by forcing the clearly unhappy passengers on board to sing the national anthem of Philippines, which lead to a monotonous drool.

Kinar & Brett arrived, and Kinar who chose to do the roadblock, misinterpreted the clue and wanted to ride the bull instead of leading it.

More teams arrived. Diane was dragged freestyle by her bull, but she survived.

Teams came and went. The next clue: head back to Manila and load four boxes from a Caltex station into a jeepney and deliver them to an orphanage.

Pam & Van got agitated as they thought the station was in Pila, not in Manila, so they wandered around aimlessly. Marc & Rovilson meanwhile, were already on the bus back to Manila. The sisters got into the second bus back with Brett & Kinar after they found out about their mistake. Lots of yelling going on.

Adrian jumped into the field to finish the job. He dropped his contact lenses and fumbled his way to complete the task. Said Adrian, “I was like a half blind mouse.”

The second bus surprisingly broke down in the middle of a highway, Pam & Van hopped into a taxi, while Brett & Kinar waited patiently for the topless bus driver to fix the bus.

Marc & Rovilson arrived at Caltex and began to load their boxes. They sent the boxes to the orphanage, and even had time to fool around with the kids. Pam & Van were second to finish the task, and were scared of the children for grabbing violently for the goodies in the boxes.

Detour! Heels or Bikes? (they don’t really rhyme, boo)

For heels, they had to match 250 pairs of shoes. For bikes, they had to fix a bicycle soundly.

Some teams did heels, some teams did bikes.

BFFs Paula & Natasha chose the shoes of course. Said Natasha,

“Paula probably has more shoes than what we saw. It’s not a challenge because we’ve been there.”

The bike challenge was proven to be stressful as teams began to shout down each other’s throats. Marc & Rovilson finished first, even though they misplaced the front part of the bicycle.

Next was Ann and Diane, who sped away as fast as their yoga legs could carry them.

Some teams finished quickly and got cheers (or jeers?) from the watching audience.

Pit stop!

Go to Paco Park Cemetery! Where the legendary Jose Rizal is buried, apparently.

Marc & Rovilson were determined to be first in their home country. Ultimately they arrived first to a cheerful Allan Woooooo, and were awarded with USD5000!! Happy boys got cash.

Paula & Natasha squatted with strangers to arrive at the pit stop second.

Ann & Diane finished third once more.

Meanwhile, the last two, Terri & Henry and Edwin & Monica arrived at the detour. Terri & Henry agreed that Terri would shut her mouth while Henry directed the moves.

Edwin & Monica continued to bark at each other, or it was Edwin only, rather. Edwin threw a tantrum like a big baby on two standing feet. Said big baby,

“You’re not doing anything, unless I say so, ok? Now you just stand here, that’s all.”

How can she stand there while you’re ordering her around? I feel so sorry for Monica. Ditch him! And he continued to babble in some language, and only goodness knows how many curses he spitted out.

Daichi & Sawaka were informed by Allan Woooooo that they were the only team to stroll up to the pit stop casually, and they finished 8th, again.

The standings: (> UP ; < DOWN ; = SAME)

Marc & Rovilson >

Paula & Natasha >

Ann & Diane =

Pam & Van <

Collin & Adrian >

Brett & Kinar <

Sophie & Aurelia <

Daichi & Sawaka =

Again it was up to Terri & Henry and Edwin & Monica.

The latter stood no chance again bike expert Henry, who dashed off with his wife to get the good news from Allan Woooooo. (XD)

Edwin & Monica arrived last, and were (finally!) eliminated, and were given the pleasure of the walk of shame.

Pam & Van needs to step up their game next time, Marc & Rovilson will be hard to beat! And hope that Ann & Diane continue to be consistent!

The final four walks on the runway with fierce looks and pretty garments. Miss J is being carried by some people. The girls are happy to arrive at the Great Wall of China. Tyra is the photographer. (!!!) They pose as warriors on the Great Wall, which is said to be the toughest photoshoot to date. Chantal says, “our whole lives had led up to this.”

Sounds exciting! But it’ll be different now that Heather isn’t there.

On the Yahoo Preview, the girls are given 15,00RMB and an hour to shop in a mall in Beijing. They have to buy their accessories according to a story (The Story of the Four Beauties) that they were told to earlier, and it has to match their dresses.

The top 5. More surprises to come. Henceforth my recaps are going to be cruel and sarcastic. Muahaha. Blame Tyra.

Firstly, the videos: (huge thanks to 888772!)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Recaps:

Hello Shanghai! Week 2.

The show begins with Heather talking on her performance last week, which ultimately got her in the bottom 2. Jenah too was insecure because she was in the bottom 3, and she felt disturbed as she was the most consistent one. Chantal starts to babble that Lisa should not be eliminated as Heather was fed lines to, and she still stayed in the game. (Yeah right, many girls in past cycles also had the same treatment.)

A Tyra Mail arrives, saying in Chinese that they’re going to go-sees the next day. They met with Susan Yang and a PT model, Shan Jin Ya. They went on go-sees, and were expected to be back by 6.00pm.

Chantal was dissed by a designer for wearing hot pink underwear and not skin-toned ones. Saleisha was said to be ‘a nice girl, but dull’. (You got that right!) Heather, meanwhile, got lost finding her first designer. (Why doesn’t her taxi just park in front of the place?) Bianca’s go-see went well, the designer liked her personality. Jenah was praised for her looks, which assembled model Christy Turlington. Heather is still lost and walking around aimlesly. (Bless the poor girl)

So far the girls are doing steadily except Heather, who still has 0 go-sees. Finally she managed to find one, (at this point, “Hallelujah” started to play) and was told to work on her walk, but her looks are definitely great.

Chantal clashed with Saleisha, who beated her to the next designer. Saleisha praised the designer’s work over and over again, and Chantal commented, “she kisses ass”. (Uh-huh.) After Saleisha left, Chantal picked up Saleisha’s footsteps and began to kiss ass herself…

Saleisha then clashed with Bianca, who was done at the time. Bianca asked Saleisha where the next go-see was, and Saleisha, ever so innocent, (yeah right) told her she didn’t know where it was located. It was actually just on the top floor of the same building, (she’d already been to that client) and Bianca left the building and headed back to her taxi. Bianca realized she had been played, and fumed at Saleisha. Saleisha was all smiles and joys and kissed more asses.

Heather was lost at her second go-see, and when she decided to head back to the agency she couldn’t find her taxi.

Time was short and Saleisha made a smart move by going back to the agency an hour earlier, which she was thankful for, as the traffic was heavy and it took them 45 minutes each to get back. At about a quarter to six, Bianca ran like crazy into the agency, and they both made it on time. Jenah arrived outside the time limit, and later, Chantal. Heather got back 40 minutes late, therefore the three of them were disqualified.

At night, the top5 went out for dinner at a ‘hot spot’, and met Susan Yang once more, who told Bianca the clients said she was great but was nervous. Saleisha meanwhile had a great personality, but her photos all appeared with the same expression. Susan announced that the winner’s face will be featured on a billboard on a cruising boat. When the girls stood up they saw…

Next day! Photoshoot with Nigel, the world’s famous, noted photographer. The girls’ mission: to stand out among a crowd, which in this case were lion and dragon dancers in a temple.

During makeup time, Nigel got turned off by Jenah’s over sarcastic attitude while talking to her. Said Jenah, “Somehow I wasn’t intimidated at all by Nigel, but when I got in front of the camera, I realized, oh.” Jenah didn’t impressed Nigel and Jay, and she freaked out by it for not getting much positive feedback.

Nigel, however got turned on by Saleisha’s presence, and even kissed her hand noisily, (!!!) much to the pleasure of Saleisha, who then did well in her photoshoot. Bianca’s problem was that she couldn’t smile and she was expression-less. Chantal was criticized for her over-posing and looked too show girl. Heather was okay and did great.

During Heather’s shoot, Jenah starts to mumble loudly about how she could do well if she wore Heather’s dress, which irritated Nigel much, and scolded her, something along the lines of, “Enough mumbling in the peanut shop!” (Which, I suppose, is the “fatal mistake” narrated by Tyra in the preview video)

In judging, Tyra revealed that the top 4 will go to Beijing.

Chantal was pointed out to wear skin-toned underwear in the future, and her shoot rocked.

Bianca wasn’t fluid enough with her movements in the photoshoot, and her face looked sleepy in the photo. Nevertheless, nice body language.

The designers love Jenah’s portfolio, but needed to work on her personality. Her photo was good, but Nigel went on about her sarcasm and her sense of humour.

Heather had a great photo, but was stiff during the phot sessions. The judges were disappointed that she only went to one go-see.

Roll call. Saleisha was first given the passport to Beijing. Then challenge winner Bianca. Then Chantal.

Heather and Jenah got the bottom 2. Expression-less Tyra said that both of them flawed in communication, but their photos in the competition were strongest and better than the other 3 girls.

“You have to be so proud of yourself. Those clients you saw don’t know Heather. But people who have gotten to know and watch you on ANTM and being a part of your journey, maybe there are some clients out there that saw a little bit more than what those other clients saw today.”

Heather said before she went, “The experience is much more than the prize.”

Reviews:

This is definitely one of the saddest and hardest-to-bear elimination in ANTM ever.

WTF to the judges for letting Heather go! She and Jenah are evidently the best 2 models in terms of photographs there. Tyra just loves cheery girls. Urgh. Saleisha has Tyra and Nigel solid behind her back. But someone had to go, ah well. They all did fairly well.

Call Nigel a world-renown fashion photographer. In the photos, we can’t even see the girls’ faces clearly! Let alone their expressions. I like that the dragons and lions looked like gobbling up Bianca, Saleisha and Chantal in their photos while they left Jenah and Heather alone.

Jenah better avenge Heather! Go Jenah!

I’d rather have Jenah’s sarcasm rather than Saleisha’s overflowing-cutesyness with 10 spoons of sugar.

I’m proud of Heather. She’s gone so far. I hope she’s one of those models who didn’t won ANTM but still were and are, very succesful, eg. Elyse (C1).

Goodbye Heather. *sobs* All the luck to you!

Covergirl of the Week:

The girl who most definitely deserves it, Heather. Heather has bagged 8 CGOTWs, the second most in ANTM history after Naima (C4), who got 10. Wonder who’ll get next week’s now that Heather’s gone.

Future episode:

The girls have a photoshoot on the Great Wall wearing warrior costumes with Tyra! (What?! First Nigel, now Tyra? Who’s next, Miss J?) They also have a fashion show or something, cause they’re walking on the runway.

Who knew Katie Leung, aka Cho Chang from the Harry Potter movies, could draw? Recently her art has been auctioned off for the Prince’s Trust charity.

Katie says that it means:

The meaning behind my drawing shows the two birds encouraging and supporting each other even though life may seem hard, boring or monotonous; hence the plain background. But as long as we help each other out and become motivated and hopeful, despite the negativity surrounding us, we will find happiness within ourselves – and this is conveyed through the birds’ vibrant colours.”

Here is the highly sought after song from ANTM! It’s the song when a girl gets eliminated and they fade out from the picture of all the girls. Actually, this is the full version of the song, and is played when the winner is announced. It’s similar anyways.